Exercising is bad for you...

Hi All,

So exercising is bad for you..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27389257

Athletes beware - endurance training may make it more likely that you will need a pacemaker, scientists believe.

A British Heart Foundation team found exercise in mice triggers molecular changes in the part of the heart that generates its natural beating rhythm.

This may explain why elite athletes have low resting heart rates and a higher risk heart rhythm disturbances, they told Nature Communications.

However, the benefits of exercising still outweigh any risks, experts say.

Len

8 Comments

Interesting Read

by NiceNiecey - 2014-05-13 09:05:20

The small bit about the protein is especially interesting. Who KNOWS the damage we're doing to ourselves with all our "extremes."

no regrets here!

by chip j - 2014-05-14 01:05:03

I ran many marathons and over 80,000 documented miles over the last 60 years and have SVT and a pacemaker. I was born with RBBB which has become a complete heart block and that is why I have a pacemaker (pacing me about 5%). The SVT only occurs (before my ablation) intermittently, during extreme exercise. Yes, I think extreme exercise may have caused my SVT, BUT hard exercise is the only time I ever had SVT. If I never exercised, I would never know I had SVT. That said, no regrets here, my running and cycling memories are among my fondest of anything I did in my life and I wouldn't hesitate to have a pacemaker and SVT again, even if each condition was directly caused by extreme exercise.

Exercise is bad for you!

by Sylvia1 - 2014-05-14 02:05:41

Have not read article yet about exercise being bad for you but totally agree!hubbie was in army when he was younger and was super fit and now has ICD because of af,LBBB,congestive heart failure.The consultant when he first told he had LBBB about 7 years ago said there are so many athletes who have heart problems in later life.I'm being lazy from now on!

Exercise.

by TickTock-UK - 2014-05-14 04:05:03

I tell when I saw this I new straight away this was the cause of my complete heart block....all that running down to the paper shop to get my ciggies, wish I had known then, I would have walked there..

Len

Interesting

by Mywingman - 2014-05-14 04:05:39

I started my running program over 3 years ago. May of last year I got the LBBB. March 19th of this year it shifted to a 2nd Degree Heart Block Type II. Now a have a running buddy with me. I thought I was keeping fit by running. Doing the Cadio thing. Good for you they say! I am not so sure now.

Very interesting Len

by IAN MC - 2014-05-14 05:05:34


It has always hit me, since joining the PM club, that a surprisingly high proportion of members have been keen runners / performance athletes before developing electrical problems of the heart ( now we will be having laboratory mice joining ! )

I think one of the biggest trials done to look at this was in Sweden in the 90's . Over 52,000 cross-country skiers were followed up for 15 years and it was found that they were far more likely to have developed heart problems than the general population , also there was a link between their actual skiing performance and the development of arrythmias later in life.

When I asked my cardiologist the usual " Why me ? " questions his immediate response was " It could have been all of those marathons that you ran ! "

But we can't wind the clock back !

Cheers

Ian

Here we go again..

by pilarnusa - 2014-05-16 03:05:08

Yes and water is bad for you too right?

Well guys let me put it this way...I was diagnosed with a lynphoma 13 years ago.. Chemotherapy and everything one year later I finished treatment I was on remission.
Changed my nutrition, started exercising running, interval training biking tennis, you name it..

It happens to be that due to the nature of the chemotherapy collateral damage to the heart was almost inevitable.. only thing kept me going without any issues for 13 years? exercising and nutrition....
Now I have a PM and guess what? yes I am running again biking kayaking dancing until exhausted and I feel good....

Stop reading the news... they just want to manipulate people and make them us live in fear...


best

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Long time exercise

by fondydoc - 2014-05-26 04:05:56

I have a similar tale. I was a runner, basketball player in HS and then a rower in college, where we did lots of distance running in the off season. I continued to run and took up bike racing as well doing many longer stage races and hill climbs. Over the years I continued to do this and was predictably diagnosed in a work physical with an arythmia and as I got older struggled with escalating heart rate. I was worked up at Oregon Heart Institute in Eugene, and was told it was similar to many endurance athletes. Eventually I ended up with a defibrilator 6 years ago and have story similar to the rest of you- can't go back. This article was passed along to my 3 sons, all of whom have done a bit of running- I hope that they can perhaps moderate their activity-they have seen what happened to me first hand.

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